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This page lists the most current award lists for major mystery awards. Links have been added to help MAF followers get to the Lisle Library copies/ILLs, and links to go to the author’s site or blog when available. These lists can be a great way to brainstorm selections for the group to discuss — or to help topple your To Be Read (TBR) piles!

Click on the book cover to go to the book in Lisle Library’s catalog and request it. If the library does not own the book the link will bring up email to request an InterLibrary Loan (ILL). These have our Murder Among Friends envelope link to email a request for an ILL on them.

Click on the author name to go to the author’s web site, blog, etc. If there is no known author site, there will be no link.

The Agatha Awards are presented at the Malice Domestic convention by the fans, authors, editors, publishers and others who attend.

Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).

This year all the stories have links to the actual stories, instead of the magazine or anthology they were published in originally. So do take advantage of this chance to easily access and read all the stories before voting!

For the Best Non-Fiction, & Best Child’s/Young Adult Novel Nominees, click on the Malice Teacup logo below.

Presented by the author members of Mystery Writers of America

Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).

Next Discussion : “The Wrong Girl” by Hank Phillippi Ryan!!

Murder Among Friends celebrates the month of love and friendship with a special call-in by one of our favorite authors, Hank Phillippi Ryan. Hank will be joining us to discuss the 2nd Jane Ryland mystery, The Wrong Girl.

At our group's Planning Meeting for the 2014 books, we decided that we wanted to follow Hank's latest series - just as we did with Bryan Gruley's Starvation Lake trilogy - so we can better appreciate the development of the character over time and in different situations.

As Hank tells it, this time out, Jane is confronted with the question: does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret?

Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal—reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.

For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there?

It's a trail of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. With a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out...

Please join us on Thursday, February 20th at 7: 00 p.m. in Meeting Rm. B to pick up our trail on Jane Ryland (first seen in The Other Woman) - & Hank! We'll start discussing the book at 7:00 and at 7:30 p.m. it will be our great pleasure to welcome Hank herself, who is calling in to the discussion.

Click on the graphic above to go to our catalog and reserve a copy of the book!

MAF 2014 Discussion Books Bookmark: Jan. – Aug.

Click on the bookmark below to go to the MAF Reading List and the full book summary and links for each title!

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